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by helloanoop 997 days ago
> There is telemetry.

yes, its miniscule. one ping (and that too once in a day) that indicates that an anonymous user opened the app. No other usage details, micro interactions or anything else is tracked. Sure - in the future we will provide option to turn this off too.

> Could you quantify? I never saw a lightweight Electron app.

relatively, compared to the other electron monsters out there. You are definitely not going to native performance and fluidity, but it's a tradeoff that I made to support multiple os.

Also, currently Bruno is just me developing it for the last 2 years. Recently a community has formed around (nice to see) and we have a flurry of new contributors.

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Users decide what is miniscule. Everyone collecting data without consent thinks they are justified. And fully offline means fully offline. It is hard to trust false claims and defensiveness.
I think Electron is fine for an application like this. Not much to gain for making a completely bespoke platform UI for a dev tool, and a lot of pain.